Top News Preview:
- The Cosmos ecosystem modular token issuance platform Eclipse Fi announced the ECLIP token economics on Twitter, and the IDO whitelist application process will open on December 11th.
- Nostr Assets will airdrop to ORDI holders, with the first phase starting on December 11th.
- Aptos (APT) will unlock approximately 24.84 million tokens worth nearly $200 million on the morning of December 12th.
- Web3 cross-chain game ecosystem Portal announced the launch of presale on December 14th.
- FTX 2.0 Alliance: The initial public bidding acquisition action will be announced on December 16th.
- ApeCoin (APE) will unlock approximately 15.6 million tokens worth nearly $28 million on the morning of December 17th.
December 11th
Project Updates:
The Cosmos ecosystem modular token issuance platform Eclipse Fi announced the ECLIP token economics on Twitter. The IDO whitelist application process will open on Monday. The total supply of ECLIP is 300 million, with an initial circulating supply of 20,550,000 ECLIP. The IDO price is $0.075, with an FDV valuation of $22.5 million. The blockchain for issuance is Neutron, and ECLIP will also be wrapped on Arbitrum and Ethereum.
Cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase's crypto advocacy group "Stand With Crypto" plan will gather 2024 U.S. presidential election candidates to discuss blockchain technology and digital assets. The Stand With Crypto website shows that Republican candidates Asa Hutchinson and Vivek Ramaswamy, as well as Democratic candidate Dean Phillips, will personally appear in New Hampshire on December 11th to discuss issues related to digital assets. Invited candidates include former President Donald Trump, independent candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr., and Republicans Doug Burgum, Nikki Haley, Ron DeSantis, and Chris Christie.
Nostr Assets to airdrop to ORDI holders, with the first phase starting on December 11th
Bitcoin Lightning Network Nostr Assets Protocol announced the Fair Mint rules, with a total of 21 million NOSTR tokens, and the Fair Mint activity will distribute 18.9 million tokens. The first phase will start on December 11th, with subsequent phases to be announced separately. Nostr Assets Protocol stated that it will airdrop to ORDI holders, with the snapshot completed on December 5th at 05:00 (UTC+8).
Starknet to undergo V0.12.3 upgrade on December 11th
Starknet will undergo the V0.12.3 and V0.13.0 version upgrades, and after Goerli is deprecated, its testnet will be migrated to Sepolia. The Goerli testnet will be supported until the end of 2023, encouraging developers to migrate to Sepolia as much as possible. V0.12.3 will introduce feeder gateway deprecation and changes to the __validate__ of account contracts; V0.13.0 will include a new transaction type V3. This transaction type will lay the foundation for generalizing paymaster and nonce, including STRK transaction fee payment, fee market, and beyond ETH. In addition, v0.13.0 will come with a new Cairo version v2.4.0 7, introducing string literals and basic string operations. As part of the planned series of network upgrades, the V0.12.3 upgrade will take place on December 11th, 2023.
Documents submitted to the Southern District of New York on September 13th show that the former Chief Revenue Officer of the crypto lending company Celsius, Roni Cohen-Pavon, pleaded guilty to four criminal charges of conspiracy to manipulate prices, securities fraud, manipulation of securities prices, and wire fraud. He has posted a $40 million bail bond and will remain on bail until the sentencing hearing on December 11th. The plea is part of an agreement reached with the prosecutors, which requires Cohen-Pavon to compensate parties affected by the collapse of Celsius. It is alleged that former CEO Alex Mashinsky made approximately $42 million in profit from artificially inflating the price through the sale of CEL tokens, while Cohen-Pavon received approximately $3.6 million in income.
Token Unlock:
Moonbeam (GLMR) will unlock approximately 12.72 million tokens worth nearly $4.3 million on the morning of December 11th.
December 12th
Regulatory Policies:
The Financial Sector Conduct Authority (FSCA) of South Africa stated that as of November 30, 2023 (application deadline), it has received 128 applications for crypto asset service provider licenses. The FSCA plans to review the statements of 36 licensees at the licensing enforcement committee meeting on December 12th. Another 22 applications will be submitted on February 13th. The remaining 14 applications must wait until March 12th. The authority did not specify the fate of all remaining applications, explaining its evaluation approach as a comprehensive assessment of "know your customer" onboarding, data protection, network risk management, conflict of interest management, complaint handling, and credit transaction counterparty risk management.
Project Updates:
Chainlink Staking v0.2 to launch in phases, with general access opening on December 12th
Chainlink announced the launch schedule for Chainlink Staking v0.2, with priority migration starting on November 29th at 01:00 (v0.1 stakers have the opportunity to migrate their v0.1 stakes and accumulated LINK rewards to v0.2), early access starting on December 8th at 01:00 (community holders meeting predefined eligibility requirements can stake up to 15,000 LINK), and general access opening on December 12th at 01:00. The staking pool for Chainlink Staking v0.2 has a limit of 45 million LINK. This upgrade focuses on providing greater flexibility for stakers through a new unbonding mechanism, enhancing security for oracle services by reducing exposure, achieving seamless future upgrades through modular architecture, and implementing a dynamic reward mechanism (supporting new sources of rewards in the future).
Cathay Securities announced that it has become the first securities firm in Taiwan to receive approval from the Financial Supervisory Commission of Taiwan (FSCA) to conduct Security Token Offering (STO) and will collaborate with Green Dot Energy to issue "Sunshine Green Benefit Debt STO." The program is a 6-year debt STO with an annual interest rate of 3.5%, adopting an annual interest payment and principal repayment mechanism, with a planned fundraising of NT$30 million. The fundraising will run until December 8th, and the official issuance will take place on December 12th, with trading on the STO platform built by Cathay Securities and Cathay Financial Holdings' Blockchain Development Center.
Token Unlock:
- Aptos (APT) will unlock approximately 24.84 million tokens worth nearly $200 million on the morning of December 12th.
December 13th
Exchanges:
Coinbase International Exchange and Coinbase Advanced will add support for perpetual futures contracts for Optimism, Arbitrum, and Ethereum Classic. The OP-PERP, ARB-PERP, and ETC-PERP markets will open around 18:00 on December 13th Beijing time.
Project Updates:
The FTX Unsecured Creditors Official Committee disclosed a letter to the FTX 2.0 Customer Special Committee on December 4th. The official committee believes that the substantive terms of the proposed restructuring plan have struck an appropriate balance between the competing interests of stakeholders and are beneficial to all unsecured creditors. The revised restructuring plan and disclosure statement will be submitted to the bankruptcy court in mid-December, providing further details. Additionally, according to information on the epiq platform regarding this case, the next hearing for the FTX bankruptcy case is scheduled for December 13th.
Bitcoin mining company Core Scientific released a report outlining its plan to exit bankruptcy proceedings in early January 2024. The report is based on the third amended joint bankruptcy plan submitted on November 16th and includes audio comments from CEO Adam Sullivan. Common stock shareholders and holders of two convertible notes will receive compensation. Common stock shareholders will receive new shares at a ratio of 25:1. Holders of notes due in April will receive $1.628 for each $1 face value, and holders of notes due in August will receive $1.201 for each $1 face value. These funds will be distributed on January 3, 2024. If an agreement is reached with major shareholders, Core Scientific will exit bankruptcy proceedings on January 5, 2024, with a net debt of $709 million, equity value of $791 million, and only $46 million in debt due in 2025. Shareholders can vote on the plan until December 13th, and the decision will be made by the Southern District of Texas Bankruptcy Court on December 22nd. If approved, the plan will take effect on January 5, 2024.
December 14th
Project Updates:
Web3 cross-chain game ecosystem Portal announced the launch of presale on December 14th, with more details on participation, pricing, and processes to be announced soon.
Layer2 interoperability protocol Connext announced that it will undergo a network upgrade called Bacco on December 14th. This upgrade is expected to significantly reduce network operating costs and enable Connext to rapidly expand to new chains and Layer2. Bacco changes the way messages are passed between chains, with messages transmitted between chains through the Connext Sequencer (subject to dispute windows and observer disputes) rather than through the sequencer of other Rollups.
BNB Chain announced a TVL incentive program aimed at encouraging projects to deploy on opBNB, which will both thrive the opBNB ecosystem and provide incentive mechanisms for participating projects. According to the program, it will be open for project applications from December 6th to December 14th, and the competition will run from December 15th, 2023, to January 14th, 2024. The total prize pool can reach up to $160,000, and participating projects will receive a corresponding share based on their ranking in the competition.
Sandeep Nailwal, co-founder of Polygon Labs, stated that Polygon Labs will hold the Polygon Connect event in India on December 7th, publicly demonstrate the next-generation ZK products on December 14th, and release products for RWA and institutional adoption on December 20th.
December 15th
Exchanges:
Binance to cease support for BUSD on December 15th
Binance has announced that it will cease support for the BUSD product on December 15, 2023. Binance reminds users to withdraw their holdings of BUSD or convert their BUSD assets to other assets supported by the Binance platform before December 15, 2023. Users can trade their BUSD assets for FDUSD with zero fees on the Binance spot market, or exchange their BUSD assets for FDUSD at a 1:1 ratio on the flash exchange trading platform.
Project Updates:
Coin98 users can convert CUSD on BNB Chain to other available assets before December 15th
Coin98 tweeted that, due to Binance's cessation of support for BUSD, and BUSD being one of the collateral for CUSD, it has decided to gradually cease support for the current version of CUSD. Users can convert CUSD on BNB Chain, Ethereum, and Solana to equivalent collateral assets for free until January 15, 2024, without paying CUSD protocol fees. Before December 15, 2023, users can also convert CUSD on BNB Chain to BUSD, and then exchange BUSD for other available assets on Binance. Additionally, Coin98 will launch a new version of CUSD.
CoinList to launch BitsCrunch token sale on December 15th, registration now open
CoinList announced the launch of the BitsCrunch (BCUT) token sale at 1:00 am Beijing time on December 15th, with registration now open. The token sale will offer 60,000,000 BCUT tokens at $0.055 per token. Additionally, 5,000,000 BCUT tokens are reserved for rewards. Furthermore, an additional 10,000,000 BCUT tokens (1% of the total supply) may be offered for purchase during the BitsCrunch community sale, at the discretion of BitsCrunch. BitsCrunch is a decentralized, AI-enhanced data network that provides analysis and forensic data for NFTs, wallets, and other public chain digital assets.
The Fantom Foundation has launched the Sonic Labs incubator program to promote innovation within its new Sonic technology stack. The program will select up to five projects, with each project receiving funding of 1 million FTM (approximately $294,000), technical support, co-marketing, and mentorship. Eligible project developers can start building from December 15th and will launch in sync with the Fantom Sonic mainnet in spring 2024. The program is open to all developers building new applications on the Fantom technology, and evaluation criteria include vision and utilization of Sonic technology. The application deadline is February 6, 2024. Selected projects will receive direct guidance from key leadership at Fantom, including Andre Cronje.
5 market makers required to return 75 million WLD by December 15th
When WLD was officially launched, World Assets Ltd. (a subsidiary of the Worldcoin Foundation) signed a loan agreement with five market makers operating outside the United States. The purpose of these entities' participation was to ensure sufficient liquidity for WLD traded on centralized platforms outside the United States and enhance price stability for WLD. These five entities collectively received a loan of 100 million WLD, which was originally due on October 24, 2023. However, World Assets Ltd. decided to extend the initial loan agreement to December 15, 2023, with the loan amount reduced to 75 million WLD, while maintaining all other terms of the agreement unchanged. On October 24, 2023, the market makers returned 25 million WLD.
Microsoft to terminate its metaverse project Project Airsim on December 15th
Microsoft's "Industrial Metaverse" Project Airsim will be terminated on December 15th this year. In a statement, Microsoft said, "We are proud of the impact this incubation project has had on our customers, and we will continue to invest in Azure to provide a computing platform for virtual worlds in the industrial sector and various internal artificial intelligence projects. We are working closely with customers to achieve this transition." The termination of Project Airsim is another example of Microsoft shifting resources to OpenAI. There are reports that Microsoft is abandoning experimental products like Surface Earbuds and focusing on investing in artificial intelligence.
Token Unlock:
CyberConnect (CYBER) will unlock approximately 1.26 million tokens, worth nearly $8.5 million, at 12:19 PM on December 15th.
December 16th
Project Updates:
LooksRare "Zero Fee NFT Sale" event to end on December 16th
NFT marketplace LooksRare announced the launch of the "Zero Fee NFT Sale" event on its official blog. During the next 30 days, the platform will waive all protocol fees implemented on the LooksRare V2 market and LooksRare Seaport. The promotional period will end at 21:00 on December 16, 2023.
FTX 2.0 Alliance: Initial public bidding acquisition action to be announced on December 16th
The FTX 2.0 Alliance tweeted that the stalking horse bid will be announced on December 16th. A stalking horse bid is an initial public bidding acquisition action proposed by the buyer selected by the bankrupt protection applicant. This action can attract more potential buyers to propose competitive acquisition prices.
Additionally, FTX customers have formed a voting alliance, with over $200 million in votes supporting FTX 2.0 and other plans, including: 1. FTX 2.0; 2. Restoration with equity tokens; 3. Customer venture capital; 4. Settlement through trading volume. Creditors will submit final plans before December 16th.
Community Events:
SeeDAO's two-year anniversary event "Our Polis" to be held in Chiang Mai on December 16th
SeeDAO will hold a two-year anniversary event for the city-state ecosystem in Chiang Mai, Thailand on December 16th. The theme of the event is "From DAO to Polis," which will mainly present SeeDAO's ecological transformation from decentralized self-organization to digital city-states. It is reported that SeeDAO released the digital city-state white paper in October 2023 and plans to publicly release the city-state identity system SNS in December. Currently, over 10 ecosystem projects have integrated SNS, and these projects will be showcased at the Our Polis event, demonstrating the vision of digital city-state life and the true large-scale application of Web3.
Token Unlock:
Flow (FLOW) will unlock approximately 2.6 million tokens, worth nearly $2.2 million, at 8:00 AM on December 16th.
December 17th
Token Unlock:
ApeCoin (APE) will unlock approximately 15.6 million tokens, worth nearly $28 million, at 8:00 AM on December 17th.
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